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A video showing alterations that, according to Ivanka Trump's testimony, former President Donald Trump made for a speech directed at the Capitol rioters on January 6 has gone viral on social media.

Representative Elaine Luria (D-VA), who led part of the January 6 Committee's public hearing last week, shared the video to her Twitter page on Monday.

The video shows previously unseen testimony about Trump and how he wanted to deal with the aftermath of January 6. The clip has so far been viewed more than 1 million times on Twitter

"It took more than 24 hours for President Trump to address the nation again after his Rose Garden video on January 6th in which he affectionately told his followers to go home in peace. There were more things he was unwilling to say," Luria wrote as the video caption.

The video showed Trump's eldest daughter and former White House adviser Ivanka Trump, former White House senior adviser Eric Herschmann and former White House adviser Jared Kushner discussing how the White House was preparing to respond to the January 6 riots the following day.

They were also asked about a speech prepared for the former president and asked why certain sentences were crossed out by Donald Trump. A copy of the annotated draft was presented to his daughter Ivanka Trump and she said the handwriting looked like her father's.

The speech, entitled "Remarks on National Healing" had the first two words, "Good Afternoon" crossed out as well as the word "today" in the following sentence.

Another sentence would have read: "Like all Americans, I am outraged and sickened by the violence, lawlessness and mayhem," the words "and sickened" were crossed out.

An entire section discussing the repercussions for those who broke the law was also crossed out.

"I am directing the Department of Justice to ensure all lawbreakers are prosecuted to the full extent of the law. We must send a clear message not with mercy but with JUSTICE. Legal consequences must be swift and firm."

As the speech specifically addressed those who had behaved destructively and violently, the sentence, "I want to be very clear you do not represent me. You do not represent our movement," were crossed out.

A closing sentence of the paragraph was also altered. Initially, it was meant to read: "And if you broke the law, you belong in jail and the words "belong in jail" were crossed out and replaced with "will pay".

When asked about the speech, Ivanka Trump said: "It looks like a copy of a draft of the remarks for that day( January 7, 2021)."

When asked whether she recognized the handwriting on the draft she said it looked like her father's handwriting.

In a separate interview, Ivanka Trump's husband, Kushner, said he had discussed the remarks with others who agreed "it was important to further call for de-escalation."

When asked why lines were crossed out, Kushner responded in a clip from an interview with the committee: "I don't know."

Newsweek has contacted Trump's office for comment.

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